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- John married Agnes, daughter of William Colvile of Hillside and Blair (m. 24 Dec 1696) and d. March 1726, leaving issue:
Christian; b. bef. 14 Jan 1698, m George Thompson.
Grizel, b. bef. 30 Jun 1699, d. aft. 1690;
George (7th of Craigluscar), b. 16 Sep 1701, d. 27 Nov 1768;
James, merchant in Edinburgh; b 18 Oct 1702; d. unm. 1730 at Craigluscar, of a fever;
Janet, b. bef. 27 Oct 1703
Robert, b. bef. 24 Mar 1705; d young of an injury received at school;
Elizabeth, b. bef. 1 Dec 1707
John (6th) resigned his interests in Craigluscar to his son George (7th) on 5 April 1732, with sasine 19th April 1732, which was some time after the death date given on his tombstone is 1726. We can only assume there was no great rush!)
One of his sons, Charles DURIE, writing in 1768, said of him:
"In the year 1768 George DURIE disposed to his son Charles, the estate of Craigluscar and to his heirs whatsoever, thereby altering the destination of heirs here recited. George upon coming to the estate found it almost freed from debt, and his brothers and sisters were all dead, so he had the sole possession of a very neat fortune. Although he had a vast genius, and might have shined in the literary world, yet he could never turn it to a profitable speculation. His chief delight was in the reading of the Holy Scriptures, history, geography and the like. He was a good scholar, very conversant in the Latin and Greek authors but never discovered any talent for business. He entertained but a low opinion of himself, was adverse to ostentation of every kind, always plain in his dress, diet, and manner of life. He studied only to be contented and happy with little. He was endued with a very strong and vigorous constitution, and his temperance seemed to promise him a long and healthful life. But alas, as his family grew numerous the cares and anxieties insufferable from an indulging parent, bore him down with grief. After enjoying an almost uninterrupted state of health for the space of about 87 years, he was in April 1768 seized with a severe jaundice, which raged about a month, and afterwards turned into a complication of other disorders, under which he languished till the 27th November following, when about one o?clock in the afternoon he died without any great emotion or seeming trouble.
In the year 1735 he married his cousin Germain Elizabeth Thomson, still alive (1768), by whom he had seven sons and two daughters."
Resigned his interests in Craigluscar to his son George on 5 April 1732, with sasine 19th April 1732. (Strange, as his death date on his tombstone is 1726)
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1641 - 1726 (~ 85 years)